Poverty in the UK and Hungary: Evidence from the Household Budget Survey

G. Collins and Gerry Redmond

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: In this paper the comparability of two household budget surveys, the 1993 Hungarian Household Budget Survey and the 1993 UK Family Expenditure Survey. Using these data the authors derive measures of total household income and expenditure, and calculate poverty headcounts assuming seven different poverty lines. They then examine the socio-economic characteristics that are associated with households falling below these poverty lines. They find that while in the UK, household size and composition are important determinants of poverty among households with children, in Hungary poverty among families with children is more associated with education of head of household. They also find that among households containing pensioners in both countries, education of head of household is an important determinant of poverty.

Date: 1997
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